Monthly Archive
August 2011Education, Philanthropy and Metrics
August 16th, 2011
In a recent interview with Black Enterprise magazine highlighted on the Foundation’s blog, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation U.S. ...
The Case for Looking at More Than Just Test Scores
August 10th, 2011
Phil Buchanan, Fay Twersky, and Valerie Threlfall highlight the work of the YouthTruth Initiative and argue the case for the importance of using student perceptions to gauge school performance. This piece originally appeared as an op ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on August 10. ...
Gates Annual Report Highlights CEP Role in Increasing Global Impact
August 5th, 2011
The power of CEP’s Grantee Perception Report (GPR) received a strong endorsement this week from Jeff Raikes, President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A widely published AP news story sparked by the giant foundation’s newly released annual report focused on the challenge of getting honest and useful feedback from grantees—and how effective CEP’s tools have been to that end. ...







